AN IMPERIAL ARMY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 431, 13 February 1909, Page 4

AN IMPERIAL ARMY.

■■■•:,' V consolidation -OF poeces.' /v; , v 'To ,'students: of, : military'attairs, 'the stated meht■ of ; the .Eight Hon; ; B. B. Haldarie, British; Secretary, of /State :for War,- that'-the .Imperial Government .is !"in tnegotititionVwiib. -the Dominions over the .Ecas with -a' .view .to : the creation and constitution of an - armv? of. >the Empire; not of -, tho Motherland merely," will hardly come:. , as'l a" surprised'. For;.some,considerable time past, the'organisation;\ equipment, and methods' ; of. training;: of -tho ; New Zealand Defence Forces have-been slowly,.undergoing , a.process- of ■' evolution, .'tie.;.Tesult of which will' ultimately constitute our own little.: army :of defence a ropljca,-on ■■a'.small: scalo, of: the; British- Territorial.: Arhiy,'. .without;: Of course,'.' tho system , : pf enlistment'; which 'is , the distinotivo:feature of-.:that .army, 'It-is.veven probable." that -this : feature .may bo ; adopted should % ths> military polioy .of, the, New Zealand \ government "■. ultimately incline, -as' .the trend of. recent events would: seem to: imply' towards a scheme of universal military, training .■.Colonel. A-'-W.-Eobin,': G. 8.;: Chief vof the'' General Staff, is in close touch with: the British Army Council;:.and as;-.developments-ideas in'tho trnininß,of;officers,.-'staritlardkfof oittimnation, syllabi, and so forth arise from'tiine to time, these are.detailed into our -own ctsi. tem. In accordance with regulations recently promulgated by the Council of Defence 1 and duly. gazetted, four Now. Zealand: officers will 'shortly be sent Home-, for.:a-tn-clve' months' course of training, and there will thereafter be anvannual mfnsion'of-new ideas and methods in our own forces, as these officers, after .their 'rotcirn : from time., to , time, • are■ ■ attached to various ; departments of, the. New "Zealand Forces. :.' ..'ivi;': ■•-. . v r>",,. ■■;/.." '-.■.". "' ■■■■' •■.... / Mr. James ■-Henry' Stone, who rehdertd valuable service, to jtopular education .'in Birmingham, has died at Sutton Coldfield, aged sevoiity-nino.. Ho was n brother of Sir Benjamin StellO, II.P. ■-..:■ ,-'.*';.:!:::'... -:-;-:-.-:-- i : Tho^K-aisor's''energy ; is amazing,'arid : -the Work ho gets through in a day. is almost Ih'yond belief. Winter; and sumin'er ho rises'! every, morniug; at live o'clock, and an hour! later is in his study commenciue tho day's .duties.'.- :;-: i -:i.-: ■..:■ :.-.'.:\ -.- :-\-,:*''•.. ..■.■*,-■]